Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
9 pages, 9 figures, accepted for Astronomy & Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aims: The precise determination of the stellar effective temperature of solar type stars is of extreme importance for Astrophysics. We present an effective temperature calibration for FGK dwarf stars using line equivalent width ratios of spectral absorption lines. Method: The ratios of spectral line equivalent width can be very sensitive to effective temperature variations for a well chosen combination of lines. We use the automatic code ARES to measure the equivalent width of several spectral lines, and use these to calibrate with the precise effective temperature derived from spectroscopy presented in a previous work. Results: We present the effective temperature calibration for 433 line equivalent width ratios built from 171 spectral lines of different chemical elements. We also make available a free code that uses this calibration and that can be used as an extension to ARES for the fast and automatic estimation of spectroscopic effective temperature of solar type stars.
Alapini Aude
Israelian Garik
Santos Nuno Cardoso
Sousa Sérgio G.
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